NME Awards: Best Video & Best International Band [Videos]

Best Video



Best International Band

My Chemical Romance Live @ Tilburg 26/02 [Videos]

Na Na Na




Thank you for the Venom





Cancer




Teenagers



SING




Bulletproof Heart



Planetary (Go!)



Vampire Money



DESTROYA



Summertime



I'm Not OK


Mama



The Only Hope for me is You



Teenagers

Tilburg, Netherlands - 26/02 [Setlist]

• Na Na Na
• Thank you for the venom
• Planetary (GO!)
• Hang 'em high
• SING
• Vampire Money
• Mama
• The Only Hope for Me is You
• Summertime
• I'm Not Okay
• Famous Last Words
• DESTROYA
• Welcome to the Black Parade
• Teenagers
• Helena
• Cancer

 --Encore--

• Bulletproof Heart

My Chemical Romance give a Backstage Tour to InDemand

Planetary (Go!) Video Shoot [Photos]

Source: Here and here

Esto es lo que pasó ayer - Filmacion de Planetary (Go!)

Alrededor de 250 personas asistieron a lo que fue la filmacion del nuevo vídeo para Planetary (Go!). El director (Michael) filmo a la multitud que hacia cola para entrar al O2 Acedemy, pidiéndoles que luzcan serios (no sonrisas).

A la audiencia se le dijo que tocarian así como un mini-concierto de 30 minutos y que trocarían Planetary unas 3 o 4 veces. Cuando los chicos salieron al escenario llevaban la ropa normal que usualmente usan en los conciertos, lo que hacia esta filmacion un poco extraña, la gente se preguntaba: y los killjoys?...

El grupo de canciones que tocaron fue:

Na Na Na

Vampire Money

Our Lady of Sorrows (Gerard le dio a escoger a la audiencia entre Our Lady of Sorrows o House of Wolves, y la primera ganó a lo que Frank Iero protesto usando un sombrero de lobo.)

Teenagers

I'm not Okay

Helena

Bulletproof Heart

Planetary (Go!)

Después de Planetary, salieron del escenario y el director les dijo que tomarían un descanso y que harían varias tomas de la audiencia sin ellos bailando y saltando con Planetary de fondo.

Se les dijo que usarían accesorios, como la cabeza gigante que Gerard usó en el vídeo de Na Na Na, las otras cabezas eran de un cachorro, un panda y un pingüino, además habían cascos de colores. 

La audiencia saltó y cantó con Planetary mientras filmaban por todos lados con un montón de cámaras, luego MCR volvió a salir al escenario y tocaron en playback Planetary. Les lanzaron confeti y globos con caritas de gatos pintadas en ellos y algunos tenían escrito PARTY POISON.

Tocaron Planetary 2 veces mas y otra vez el confeti y los globos por todas partes. Al final tocaron Vampires Will Never Hurt You.

Nos queda esperar como quedará el vídeo, los que estuvieron ahí seguramente lo recordaran por siempre. No estuve ahí así que todo lo que esta arriba fue lo que me contaron...

My Chemical Romance Interview [ARTROCKER!]

Not necessarily our usual fare, but when My Chemical Romance hit Glasgow last week, Chelsea Cochrane

caught up with them for an exclusive interview.

Whilst thousands of eager teenage fans coil round the interior of Glasgow SECC we are brought past the manic group that started the queue almost 48 hours previously, and into the empty Hall 4. Once we;ve passed through four different security points and up numerous hallways, we were seated in a small but homely room, sparsely lit and scented with several candles. After a momentary wait Gerard Way and his younger brother Mikey enter the room, emanating a calm cool despite outer appearances of nervousness. And after brief introductions our interview gets underway.

Chelsea: The last time you guys were in the UK playing arenas with The Black Parade tour you had a massive stage production, various pyrotechnics and grandeur costumes but when you returned last October, for Danger Days, you’d stripped it right down. What is this tour going to be like?

Gerard:  I’d say it’s somewhere maybe right in the middle. It is stripped down in that it is mainly about the band performing and playing but there are a lot of lights. We’ve brought a lot of really amazing lights, I think we’ve got 6 semi’s full! But it is just us playing, there are no props really or anything, no settings, there’s just the band. That’s new for us really. 

Mikey: Yeah, it’s like a less is more kinda thing. We stripped everything back but it seems like more, you know. The lights seem even more impactful.

Chelsea: You took Glasgow-based band Twin Atlantic out support you last time around, why is it you chose them?

Gerard: When we listened to their EP (A Guidance From Colour) we just thought they were great.

Mikey: They reminded us of this great thing they shared with bands coming up from New Jersey in the early 2000’s.

Gerard: Their all really nice guys.

Mikey: Yeah, they kicked ass on that tour!

Chelsea: Also at your last show in Scotland you played the track ‘DESTROYA’ for the first time live, which was dedicated to Grant Morrison. How much of an influence is he on the new album? 

Gerard: Huge. He is a huge influence personally to me, too. I guess more importantly he is just a really close friend, he and his wife. I look up to them; I ask them for a lot of advice. He was a big influence on taking a chance with this record and kinda saying “Fuck it!”, but in a really good way. We are playing ‘DESTROYA’ again tonight. It’s gotten, I think, much bigger sounding.

Mikey: ‘DESTROYA’ is actually my favourite lightshow set! Grant’s one of the great thinkers and philosophers of his generation, he is one of the greats and just such a warm hearted and caring person and a huge influence on me and Gee and one of our closest friends.

Chelsea: How is it you actually became friends?

Gerard: During Black Parade I had done an interview somewhere, in Rolling Stone or Spin I believe, where I just talked about all the influences since Revenge and then on The Black Parade and I just talked a lot about his work. So he got wind of it and he was a big fan of ours. He is into a lot of great older music and older stuff but also he is into contemporary music, he is into modern younger bands too which you don’t find a lot. So we met in Glasgow at the Barrowlands, and I remember being really nervous.

Mikey: But we hit it off right away, there was a rapport right away and it was like we had known each other a long time.

Chelsea: So does ‘DESTROYA’ have anything to do with him or is it just his favourite song?

Gerard: It’s interesting, it was their favourite when we played them [Grant and his wife Kristan] the finished album. They hop over to LA sometimes too and we had them over at the studio and before we even played it for them I kinda had a feeling they were gonna love it. I remember Kristan saying “Wow that is the fucking greatest”, she loved it and they both loved it!

Mikey: They loved ‘DESTROYA’ and ‘Planetary (GO!’), those are the key jams.

Chelsea: Yeah they really stand out, ‘Party Poison’ as well.

Mikey and Gerard: Yeah, yeah!

Chelsea: Why is it you have a song named solely after Gerard’s character, Party Poison?

Gerard: It’s just a good title really. “Death before Disco”, the original title of the song, just didn’t feel right anymore. It didn’t feel like it was current.

Chelsea: Is Grant Morrison or his character (Morrison potrays Korse, the head of the fictional corporation MCR’s alter-egos The Killjoys are attempting to take down) going to be involved in the Danger Days comics?

Gerard: No, none of the characters, even our characters, are in it. It is a completely separate thing, even almost a separate setting. It shares all the ideals behind the record and the theories and the commentary but it is nothing like the videos you have seen. I think the car is probably the only thing that’s the same!

Chelsea: Gerard, you have said before that around the time a new album is released you already have ideas for the follow up; do you have any for the next one yet?

Gerard: It’s weird because I don’t like talking much about what I think it will be anymore because I usually find that I am wrong. I mean, I had gut instincts at least visually about Danger Days and I was right about it and that’s what we ended up doing. I’m forming some stuff now but… I would love to just go record but being on tour makes that difficult. If we could get in a studio now I would just love to make some music.

Mikey: Yeah, the new sound just kind of finds you. You can’t plan it or guess what it’s going to be because you’ll usually be wrong, but you’ll always be pleasantly surprised. You can never formulate what you’re going to sell you will just end up where you are supposed to be.

Chelsea: Music videos have always been a very important part of My Chemical Romance’s visual element and often carry on a story with each album’s singles, but your characters died at the end of the last video; are you planning a come back for them now or doing something different?

Gerard: Well we are going to take a break from the story for a bit until it feels like we got to the song that makes the most sense to do the last part. To me it feels like ‘Only Hope (For Me Is You)’ is the best one to do for the last part of the video so when we get there…I have lots of ideas but I like to keep it loose and I don’t over think it. I like to finalize things a week before, sometimes day of.

Chelsea: So ‘Planetary (GO!)’ is your next single, what is the plan for the music video?

Gerard: We are going to try and do something that we have never done before, I think we are going to perform with a real audience and make something visually cool looking-  like it needs to be shot on all kinds of crazy different cameras. A live video but I think it’s going to look more artistic than that, I see big LED’s in my head, lot’s of lights and colours and sweat and audience but kinda more like a party!

Chelsea: Kind of reflecting your new tour set up then?

Gerard: I think so yeah. We are making it right now so obviously a lot of who we are right now is going to be in that.

Chelsea: Over the years you have all changed as a band and a lot as people since ‘Life on the Murder Scene’ came out, have you got any plans for another documentary?

Mikey: We have been talking about that actually because the 10 years is coming up and we have been talking about putting together a documentary of sorts. That’d be really cool we think.

Gerard: Yeah it would be nice to do a follow up to that. I feel like what’s great about “Murder Scene” is to me it’s more than a biography about a band and I think it would be nice to catch up, so to speak, to what things are like now because that was about 7 years ago.

Mikey: Yeah a new version of that would be pretty great!

Chelsea: As you mentioned there the 10^th Anniversary of your first album “I Brought You My Bullets, You Brought Me Your Love” is coming up, do you have a special release or gig or tour planned?

Gerard: We are talking about all those things yeah. We want to do something really nice for the fans like some kind of cool package. Frank and Mikey have kept a lot of the original materials and show fliers and stuff so we are hoping to do a lot with that.

Chelsea: Like replicate them and put them in a pack or something?

Gerard:  Something, yeah. I have every single scrap of paper I’ve ever written lyrics on and like a giant thing just sitting in my office.

Mikey: I have one of those photo books filled with show fliers and old set lists and day sheets, I have a bunch of those and then Frank has absolutely everything. My stuff is kind of scattered but his is complete, he has everything ever. 

Fraser: There are a few bands, such as Coheed and Cambria, who play through their entire albums. For their tenth anniversary they are touring America with just their first album, is that something you guys are considering?

Gerard: Yeah, we are talking about it. I know Thursday is doing the ‘Full Collapse’ tour right now.

Mikey: Yeah, we missed by like a couple of days, I was so bummed!

Chelsea: You recently recruited a new drummer, Mike Pedicone from The Bled. How is it playing with him and has he fitted in well with MCR?

Gerard: He is a fantastic rock drummer and I think that is really why he is very much like us. The Bled is obviously a heavier band in some ways but if you listen to Bullets that’s a pretty heavy record with elements of post-hardcore and metal on it. We fit together super great, it just gelled instantly and we love playing with him live.

Mikey: We are having a great time with him, just having a ball up there.

Chelsea: Will he be sticking around for festivals?

Gerard: Yeah!

Mikey: There is no… It’s like (James) Dewees is one of our best friends, Pedicone is one of our best friends, and we are all friends playing so there is no titles or this or that.

Fraser: You guys definately look like you’re having fun playing together, especially in Edinburgh last year.

Mikey: That was my favourite show on that tour!

Chelsea: We asked a fan for a question and they wanted to know is Party Poison’s jacket influenced by Akira?

Gerard: Definitely! The iconography as well, I try and make it my own but it is definitely inspired by Akira.

Source: Artrocker!

A My Chemical Romance le Gusta que el Rock Este Pasado de Moda [ContactMusic]

My Chemical Romance piensa que ahora es el mejor momento para gustar del rock, porque no es 'cool', lo que se vuelve un 'peligro de volver a eso'.

Los "Na Na Na" rockers reconocen que el hecho de que la música basada en guitarras no esta escalando muy alto en la actualidad y eso hace que sea 'peligroso', como a las personas que escuchan esto se vuelven marginados.

Ray Toro, dijo a la revista NME: "El rock esta en mal estado, no es genial gustar del rock en estos días, y creo que es realmente genial. Es un peligro volver al rock."

"Es como cuando escuchabas Metal y todo el mundo estaba como, 'que coño estas escuchando, es una mierda!' Ahí es donde estamos."

Gerard Way dijo que siente en el hip hop de los últimos tiempos, en particular, en Kanye West, hace ver a los rockeros como ridículos.

Explicó: "Ves a Kanye hacer ese disco sorprendente y hace vídeos que son realmente artísticos. Considerando que el pop era usualmente una cosa de usar y tirar, tienes a alguien que si le importa una mierda y tuvo la oportunidad, así que hace que un montón de chicos de pie con instrumentos parezcan realmente tontos."

"Especialmente los que no están tratando de decir nada."

Fuente: ContactMusic . com

Shockwaves NME Awards 2011: My Chemical Romance won two awards

My Chemical Romance were the big winners at this evening’s Shockwaves NME Awards ceremony at the O2 Academy in Brixton.  Winning Best International Band and Best Video, they were the only act to bag two awards.

Elsewhere, Muse won Best British Band, Biffy Clyro won Best Live Band and Laura Marling grabbed Best Solo Artist.  The most-nominated band, Oxford-based Foals, only managed to win Best Track from their five nominations, and the Arcade Fire only won Best Album from their foru nominations, which made them the most nominated international band on the evening.

Hurts beat Liam Gallagher’s Beady Eye to Best New Band while NME honoured Dave Grohl, PJ Harvey and Crystal Castles in the awards categories chosen by the magazine.

The Shockwaves NME Awards 2011 will be shown on Channel 4 this Saturday (26th February) at 11:20pm. [UK]

The Shockwaves NME Awards 2011 winners in full:

Philip Hall Radar Award – The Naked & Famous 

Teenage Cancer Trust Outstanding Contribution to Music – PJ Harvey
 
John Peel Award for Innovation – Crystal Castles
 
Godlike Genius – Dave Grohl 

Best British Band – Muse
 
Best international Band- My Chemical Romance
 
Best New Band – Hurts
 
Best Solo Artist – Laura Marling
 
Best Live Band – Biffy Clyro 

Best Album – The Suburbs by Arcade Fire
 
Best Track – Spanish Sahara by Foals
 
Best Video – Na Na Na(Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na) by My Chemical Romance
 
Best Dancefloor Filler – Jungle by Professor Green 

Best Festival – Glastonbury
 
Best Small Festival – RockNess
 
Best Album Artwork – Surfing the Void by Klaxons
 
Best Blog – Hayley Williams (Paramore)
 
Best Book – John Lydon (Mr Rotten’s Scrapbook)
 
Best TV Show – Skins
 
Best Film – Inception 

Hero – Lady Gaga
 
Villain – David Cameron
 
Most Stylish – Brandon Flowers
 
Least Stylish – Justin Bieber
 
Worst Album – My World 2.0 by Justin Bieber
 
Worst Band – Jonas Brothers
 
Hottest Man – Matt Bellamy
 
Hottest Woman – Alison Mosshart (The Kills)

Source: Beehivecity

My Chemical Romance @ GRAMMY Museum

Esta entrevista fue en el Grammy Museum, hablan sobre los inicios, sobre los fans, es bastante interesante! disfruten killjoys!!

MTV Winter [España] - My Chemical Romance Confirmado

 

MTV ha confirmado hoy que My Chemical Romance, SUM 41, DJ Sets de Orbital y Groove Armada y los valencianos The Welcome Dynasty actuarán el próximo 12 de marzo en el festival MTV Winter.

MTV Winter regresa a Valencia por cuarto año consecutivo con una cara renovada y el compromiso de ser un evento sostenible, que junto a los grupos harán de esta edición otro éxito incontestable.

MTV ha querido dotar al MTV Winter de la escenografía más innovadora, y por ello este año el escenario, situado bajo el Museo Príncipe Felipe, será una plataforma abierta al público de 26x12 metros y con una pantalla de 45 metros de ancho en la que se proyectarán visuales. De esta manera, toda la vanguardista arquitectura de la Ciudad de las Artes y las Ciencias se convertirá en el espectacular escenario para los conciertos de My Chemical Romance, Sum 41, los DJ Sets de Orbital y Groove Armada, más The Welcome Dynasty.

Este año MTV Winter Valencia reúne a los grupos de rock juvenil del momento y a dos iconos de la electrónica en un cartel capaz de reunir a todo tipo de público bajo una nueva e impactante producción. My Chemical Romance, la apuesta actual de Warner Music, con más de 8 millones de discos vendidos, vuelve con una propuesta más madura y menos apocalíptica con la que da un giro a su carrera y que le ha llevado a ser proclamada como “el mejor disco de rock de 2010, la salvación del rock n´roll” según la prestigiosa revista musical británica New Musical Express. Su concierto del MTV Winter se emitirá el próximo 15 de abril como parte de la iniciativa MTV World Stage.

 

Fuente: MTV España

Gerard Way expresa su deseo de colaborar con David Bowie

Gerard conversó con Ben Jones de Absolute Radio y le contó por qué le gustaria colaborar con David Bowie.

BJ: 0Si pudieras tener la colaboracion con cualquier musico de la historia ¿Quien seria y por que? Les estamos dando como opcion toda la historia.

GW: Lo se, es dificil, hombre. David Bowie. Es impresionante.

BJ: ¿Por que David Bowie? Creo que probablemente sé por qué David Bowie.

GW: Es cierto. Creo que porque es un verdadero artista, completamente siempre hizo lo que el queria, cambio de grabacion en grabacion y totalmente lo admiro. Definitivamente creo que es un genio, creo que nada parece estar en el camino de el haciendo su arte y eso es admirable.

BJ: Tenia una forma increible de tener la imagen, pero no aparte de la musica que hacia. Y en realidad pudo haber estado solo usando pantalones de color marron con una raya aun lado y habria sido entretenido como lo que estaba haciendo.

GW: Definitivamente, pienso mucho eso, hago un monton de dibujos. Hablamos de eso sin embargo, todos salen con sus propias variaciones.

Fuente: Music-News

A unique Hip-Hop cover of My Chemical Romance’s song [You Know What They Do To Guys Likes Us In Prison by THINK TANK ]

Gerard Way Alaba el Baile de Justin Bieber

Gerard dijo a Ben Jones de Absolute Radio que Justin Bieber es un gran bailarin.

Ben Jones: "A que se debe que alguien como Justin Bieber, por ejemplo, haya tenido esta explosion?"

Gerard Way: "Bueno, es una especia de solo hacer esta cosa, al igual que los Jonas Brothers, New Kids on the Block, es esa voz. Asi que eso es como el poppuro, solo es alguien que es un gran bailarin y hace todas esas cosas, ya sabes."

Ben Jones: "Todo es American Idol, Rihanna, Katie Perry, Justin Bieber, y es un poco dificil para algunas bandas obtener el reconocimiento. Para los Kings of Leon les tomo un largo tiempo infernal el obtener el mismo reconocimiento en Estados Unidos que tenian aqui (refiriendose a UK)."

Gerard Way: "Tenia una teoria al respecto como hace un mes sobre el pop y el por qué fue. Talvez en algunos aspectos, porque ciertos tipos de pop, no las cosas realmente tontas, sino talvez las cosas mas inteligentes como Gaga o Kanye, estan haciendo el trabajo de ser artisticos e inteligentes, mientras que el rock solia hacer ese trabajo y creo que ahora algunos actos pop lo estan haciendo, asi que talvez sea el rock el que este haciendo funcionar su dinero"

"US rockers My Chemical Romance Are Certainly No Killjoys" [Huddersfield Daily Examiner]

VENUE: Manchester Evening News Arena

BY: Andrew Hirst

ANTICIPATION for My Chemical Romance was huge – but could they live up to the hype? Absolutely and the reason is they come to gigs armed with killer riffs, even more killer choruses and an all-round package that’ll leave a lasting impression long after the last note has faded away.

The lighting at Friday night’s gig was nothing short of spectacular – a multi-coloured extravaganza that changed with the rhythm and at times just simply exploded into white-out.

And then with three top quality video cameras in action – two right up at the front – the production was spot-on with the images changing by the second on the two huge screens as the classic songs reached their thunderous climaxes. They brought live even more to life.

It meant you didn’t miss anything no matter where you were in the huge MEN arena. The standing area was a thriving mass of arms-in-the-air jubilation and the seats were redundant once the band hit the stage.

Gerard Way may be the flame-haired frontman, but the entire band has the ability to enrapture as they rattled through ‘the good stuff’ predominantly from latest concept album Danger Days: The True Lives Of The Fabulous Killjoys.

Crowd pleasers included Sing, The Last Parade, The Only Hope For Me Is You, Summertime, Na, Na, Na, (Na, Na, Na, Na, Na,Na,Na, Na, Na) – even I could sing along to that one – and the ultra vicious Destroyer.

Teenagers fires right from rock’s heart, but Gerard didn’t forget those dragged along by teen kids by dedicating The Kids From Yesterday to all the parents. Aw, thanks Gerard, for reminding us of our long lost youth.

It was so packed at the front MEN staff had to shoot water into the open mouths of those caught up in the sway and Gerard implored his devotees to pick anyone up who had fallen.

“Don’t leave them down there,’’ he yelled. “Don’t leave anyone down there.’’

So health and safety and art rock can go hand-in-hand.

Judging by the crowd’s reaction forthcoming single, the intense pogoing Planetary (Go!) is set to be huge, firing them even further into the superstar stratosphere.

Source: Examiner

Bulletproof Heart & DESTROYA Live @ Trent FM Arena Nottingham - 19/02

My Chemical Romance habla de Glee

"Con la industria discografica de la forma en que es ahora, con la música pop como única dominante, creo que hay que tomar decisiones como esta para incursionar en estas cosas", dijo Ray Toro.

Mientras tanto, Frank Iero dijo que no era un gran fan de Glee... por el canto. "Solo vi el show dos veces después que se nos pidió que lo hagamos y no creo que haya nada como eso en television. Por lo menos mi parte favoritas del programa es el canto, creo que se parece un poco demasiado a Grease. Pero en realidad el show es divertido en primer lugar, pero también tener un personaje tan abiertamente gay pasando por dificultades dice algo de estos tiempos - así que estaba emocionado de ser parte de algo que esta muy adelante. Y creo que fuimos el primer grupo de rock en hacerlo también."

Sin embargo, los chicos de My Chem no van a tirar piedras a las bandas que no quisieron las ofertas de Glee. "Creo que es la prerrogativa de cualquier banda el hacer o no hacer Glee o cualquier otra cosa que no quieran hacer. Yo creo que dejarlos pasar fue muy poco profesional. Si una banda no quiere hacer algo se le debe permitir no hacerlo sin que alguien salga y diga a la m***** con ellos". "Eso fue realmente tonto y he perdido un poco de respeto por ellos por eso, pero ya habíamos dicho si para entonces (risas)."

“We just have no reason to be sad anymore” [State Interview]

By Dave Donnelly

State: What was your inspiration for the record?

Frank: Well after the last record, we toured two… two and a half years straight, and we decided to take an extended break, just living our lives again. And about eight months into that break…

Mikey: Yeah, that’s when the itch started.

Frank: …we got it together and did a song [a cover of Bob Dylan’s ‘Desolation Row’] for theWatchmen movie soundtrack and it felt good just to be making noise and playing together again. So we decided to get together again. About two or three months after that we convened out in LA, started picking up guitars and playing, and we wrote about 20 or 30 songs. We started to record them, kind of ran out of time, got the mix in the studio and we were kind of unhappy with how it was finally coming about. So we put it all on hold and went back into another studio, met up with Rob Cavallo who did our last record and wrote four brand new songs and liked them way better than the 20 or 30 that we had written before.

We just kept going, and slowly but surely this concept started coming about, like a setting kind of thing. Picture it: an apocalyptic event occurs and it’s 2019 – what would the band sound like? There would still be music, there would still be shows – if there were kids still alive – but what would that band be like? We started to pick up instruments that we weren’t really familiar with and never really experimented with before – didn’t really know how to play – and what you’re hearing is a band sort of excited and, I think, psyched to be creating.

Mikey: It was definitely a period of exploration and it was exciting for all of us. We were doing things that we never thought we could do. That was very exciting and very fulfilling.

You all inhabit different characters on the album, or at least that’s the presentation, was that a conscious thing?

Mikey: We kept any character elements strictly to the video. It’s not supposed to be anything more than that.

The idea of the radio broadcast – was that central to how you wrote the songs? Were you writing “radio songs,” the sort of songs that could sound like they were coming out of your radio one after another?

Frank: I think the idea of having a narrator to bring you through the world… the idea is to have a pirate radio station emerging from this apocalyptic world. But definitely, I think, at least some of them are crafted pop songs. That’s what we do – take the formula for a pop song and kind of twist it and make something ugly beautiful.

Mikey: The DJ was kind of a nod to some of our favourite films – there’s a radio DJ who comes in and guides the viewer/listener in a few different things: The Warriors and Vantage Point and Reservoir Dogs did that really well. It’s kind of like a tiny bit of the inspiration for that was from that.

There’s more of a power pop vibe than on the last album, sort of a bit more carefree, less serious topics…

Mikey: We’re at a more positive point in our lives. We’re more happy people, have amazing, supportive family and friends around us and we just have no reason to be sad anymore. We’re just very much into having an amazing time. That kind of carries through in the songs.

No plans to go on another two-year tour…

Frank: Nah, I fucking hope not.

Mikey: Hahahahaha.

Frank: I think we’ll have to be more smart about it.

Mikey: Yeah we’ll be wiser when it comes to that. We won’t drive ourselves to the point of exhaustion and mental anguish. We’ll do everything smarter this time.

Last question: ‘Vampire Money’ is a rip on Twilight, right?

Mikey: Sort of! It’s a rip on anyone repeatedly telling you to do what you don’t want to do. It just so happens that that can be the context that people pull out of it. It’s not necessarily a dig atTwilight, it’s just a dig at a nagging. It’s a dig at someone nagging at you

Source: State

My Chemical Romance se prepara para el show en Cardiff

My Chemical Romance se prepara para lo que será su presentación en Cardiff (Ciudad de Reino Unido), el proximo 21 de Febrero. 

Frank dijo: "El próximo año serán 10 años desde que estamos juntos. Eso es demasiado tiempo para permanecer en una sombra. Y creo que si has sido un fan de la banda por un largo tiempo entonces necesitas de estos sentimientos diferentes, estas emociones diferentes para salir adelante. Y se que eso es lo que necesitamos ahora mismo."

Fuente: Wales Online

Vampires Will Never Hurt You @ The o2, Dublin

Sing - Glee Performance on the Last Night Episode

Well this review it's mmm.. just read it for yourself!

My Chemical Romance wow LG Arena
words and pictures by James Watkins

The West Midlands succombed to the Power-punk American rock of My Chemical Romance as the LG Arena enjoyed a greatest hits set that impressed an 8,000-strong crowd.

Opening with the classic curtain drop intro to unveil vocalist Gerard Way and his band mates Frank Lero, Ray Truro and Mikey Way, MCR roared into Na Na Na (Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na) and Give ‘Em Hell Kid to rock the make-up-wearing revellers and raise the scream levels to fever pitch.

Thrashing through Hang ‘Em High and Our Lady Of Sorrow, the fast pace continued through a power-riffed Famous Last Words before being slowed down with harmonies of The Ghost Of Me.

While not offering a particularly visually-appealing show, the consistent swagger of Gerard Way bouncing around the stage kept the predominantly young crowd happy, particularly with the tempting chordular treat of there biggest chart hit, Welcome To The Black Parade.

Ending the night with Cancer and the epic Vampires Will Never Hurt You, MCR left the stage to audacious screams from their army of followers.

My Chemical Romance Live at Glasgow [Cancer]

My Chemical Romance Evening with XFM - SING

My Chemical Romance charla con I Like Music

Un laberinto detrás del escenario conduce a Mikey y Frank. I Like Music se sentó en una habitación limpia que lucia increíblemente tranquila, para una charla sobre música - nuevo instrumento Epiphone de Mikey, momentos de claridad en el escenario, haciéndose pasar por Bruce Dickinson y su aprecio genuino por los seguidores mas dedicados de MCR...

"Me gusta la música porque... es mi todo" Frank, My Chemical Romance.

ILM: Hemos estado hablando con algunos muy bonitos, muy dedicados fans. Ellos estaban acampando fuera la noche anterior y luego ustedes los invitaron a la prueba de sonido en Wembley Arena! Muy cool...

Mikey: Si. Nuestros muchachos de gira salieron a fumar un cigarrillo y un descanso y regresaron diciendo "tenemos una idea genial!".

ILM: De todas las cosas que tu banda favorita podría hacer por ti, una invitacion a una prueba de sonido en Wembley Arena esta a la altura...

Mikey: Oh, si. Hay bandas en las cuales yo estaba super envuelto cuando yo estaba creciendo y si hubieran hecho lo mismo por mi, hubiera sido algo increíble.

ILM: No habíamos hablado antes con una banda a tan poco tiempo de un gran espectáculo. Son las 18:00 estamos sentados detrás del escenario en Wembley... Como se sienten acerca de esta noche? Ha comenzado la adrenalina?

Mikey: Oh si, hay una sensacion en el estomago, literalmente, desde el momento de despertar ese día. Cualquier show en realidad,  no importa lo grande que sea. Hay una intensidad en el pecho que es como, bueno... nunca se va. Da miedo y es genial al mismo tiempo! Yo no lo cambiaria por nada del mundo...

Frank: No creo que haya existido alguna vez un show en el cual ese día no amanezca enfermo!

Mikey: Si! Ja ja ja! Te pones tan nervioso!

Frank: Si, sabiendo que tienes que tocar esa noche. Ayer tuvimos ensayos y me sentía increíble, estamos en Wembley, y luego los chicos entraron y fue genial. Todo lo que podía pensar era "mañana sera impresionante!" Entonces hoy desperté como... oh, mierda. Todo esta en la mente, estoy seguro.

Mikey: Lo mismo me pasa a mi. Tenemos un día de producción y estoy como "hombre, esto es impresionante! Tenemos esto!"Luego, al dia siguiente es como "oh, Dios mio, estoy tan asustado! Oh, Dios mio!" Siempre te lleva de vuelta al punto de partida.

Frank: 12 horas de puta tortura. Y entonces las luces se apagan. Estás ahí arriba. Y es jodidamente increíble. Pero previo a ese momento, ese es el peor momento de mi vida!

Mikey: En el momento en que las luces caen.

ILM: No hay vuelta atrás...

Mikey: Si, solo puedo relacionarlo con ser astronauta, señalando el espacio y es el despegue... Se siente como un despegue. Es una sensacion indescriptible.

Fuente: I Like Music

Q&A with My Chemical Romance - Music Connection [January Issue]

Music Connection: You recently performed at an NFL football game in Europe. What was behind the  decision to play at a sporting event?

Gerard Way: First and foremost, the guys are really big football fans. As a child, I was a big football fan. I gotta be honest, and maybe this is shooting myself in the foot, but with anything like that, subversion is my main objective.

Frank Iero: It was nerve racking to say the least. It was one of the biggest crowds we’ve ever played to. They do these international games once a year. You come, play two songs for 90,000 people and watch a game. It was such an interesting and different situation than what we’re used to.

MC: In preparing for the tour, you’ve probably been listening to your older material. What do you think when you hear it?

Iero: We had to relearn the old songs. It’s crazy to listen back. It’s like time traveling. Ten years later you’re playing the new songs back to back and it’s fun to see how they work together.

Way: There’s nostalgia. It’s kind of crazy because I remember where I was when we wrote the songs, recorded them; what they used to mean and what they mean to me now.

MC: And once you’ve finished recording, how involved is the band in the mixing and mastering process?

Iero: You need to be there every step of the way to have your vision shine through. I’ve heard horror stories where someone’s recorded an album and loved it, but then it gets in the hands of the mixer and it becomes something completely different. We’re very hands on. At the end of the day, how it’s digested is through that mixing and mastering. Chris [Lord-Alge] who mixed this record is very good at his craft and knows how to use a large amount of tracks and still have the best quality.

MC: Early on, your band used to offer free downloads through Myspace and Pure Volume. How do you feel now about fans getting your music free?

Way: For a band as different as ours to get as far as we have, we owe a lot to the fact that we were traded, pirated. We were the internet band. That’s great and I embrace that, but at the same time, in order for us to grow as a band, to make the videos we make, we have to spend money to do that. If people want to keep seeing that, they should choose to support it, by just simply buying an album. We don’t ask more than that. I’m not one of those guys who are bitter or angry about [downloads]. We fill the seats. But pirating is something I feel really strongly about. I feel that if you make something great, me personally, I wanna buy it. I understand now it’s different, but when something is great I want it in my life; something physical from it: sticker, t-shirt, hopefully a CD.

MC: You’ve had both indie and major label deals. What’s been the difference for you?

Way: To me, it’s the same thing, but one’s larger. The misconception about the indie labels that bands starting out need to know is that indies can be worse than majors. Not all indies. Some are great, but I’ve seen indies far greedier than majors. I’ve experienced that a lot of bands on indies, like Victory Records, have just brutalized my friends’ bands. That’s an indie label that backs itself on scene cred but they’ve taken advantage of bands. Those label guys are very well off now. It’s easy to throw a molotov cocktail at major labels, meanwhile you’ve got an indie label abusing bands, taking total advantage and getting giant houses off the work your friends did in a basement. To me, [majors] are the lesser of to fucking evils. I would ask, “What’s your aspiration?” If you wanna be indie and play intimate shows, start your own label. Don’t go to these hucksters. They’re worse than the majors. You will not get phone calls back. You will not get royalties.

MC: Do you all share songwriting credit?

Way: We share songwriting credit because we all write songs together. I know traditionally lyricists make more, but I learned this early on from Geoff Rickly of Thursday. He always shared his lyric royalties with his band, because without the band, what are you going to write lyrics to? That whole“lyricists makes more money” is an old guard way of thinking. The guys have to stand up there every night and support whatever I’m saying. My band is muchstronger than bands where the frontman lives in a mansion and his guys live in apartments.

MC: How did you go about selecting a producer? You began with one producer and ultimately wound up working with your old producer Rob Cavallo.

Way: Everything that went wrong on the first attempt had to do with rules. My Chem had this rule: go with a new producer because the band changes everytime. What we hadn’t considered about Rob is that he changes as much as us. We foolishly followed the rule. We went with a new producer and Brendan [O’Brien] is an amazing guy, but we really found our match when we made Parade. Embracing Rob as the fifth member and the true final producer for the rest of our careers is why Danger Days exists.

My Chemical Romance Set-List de Concierto en Wembley Arena [12/02]

Intro:
Look Alive, Sunshine

1. Na Na Na (Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na)
2. Give 'Em Hell, Kid
3. Planetary (GO!)
4. Hang 'Em High
5. SING
6. Vampire Money
7. Our Lady of Sorrows
8. Mama
9. The Only Hope For Me Is You
10. Party Poison
11. Summertime
12. I'm Not Okay (I Promise)
13. Famous Last Words
14. The Ghost Of You
15. DESTROYA
16. Welcome To The Black Parade (Con Interlude)
17. Teenagers
18. The Kids From Yesterday
19. Helena

ENCORE
   20. Cancer
   21. Vampires Will Never Hurt You (Tocada por primera vez desde 2005)

My Chemical Romance to headline Reading and Leeds or Download?

My Chemical Romance frontman Gerard Way announced on stage at London's Wembley Arena this past Saturday (February 12) that The Fabulous Killjoys will be back to headline one of this summer's festivals. However, before the singer could reveal which one, his bandmates told him not to give the game away. 

Sonisphere, T In The Park, Glastonbury and Oxegen heve already confirmed their headliners, so that only leaves the third headliner slot at Download, or one of the headlining slots at Reading and Leeds. 

Source: Kerrang!

My Chemical Romance en Wembley Arena [Imagenes]

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Some Fan Questions of the Kerrang Issue

• On Danger Days... You talk about a party at the end of the world... But then what? What happens next?

From: Josi, Brazil

Gerard: "Ha! Good Question. Well, I think the world probably wouldn't end. You've just go to fantasise it ends."

Ray: "It would be embarrasing to have the party at the end of the world, only for the sun to come up the next day."

Mikey: "Anytime someone predicts the end of the world, that date comes around and there's an awkward pause, then they go, 'Erm... never mind'. Remember Y2K?  That was supposed to be the end of the American society and that hasn't happened."

Frank: "I don't know - shit sucks at the moment."

Gerard: "Perhaps Y2K was this long drawn-out thing and no-one realised. We're all being digitally pirated as we speak."

Frank: "Maybe all Y2K meant was that everybody was going to get famous."

Gerard: "You're totally right: the actual end of the world will come the moment everyone is famous."

• Are you aware of Frerard - and have you ever read any of the Gerard and Frank fanfic?

From: Ellie, Slovakia

Gerard: "I'm aware of it but, God no. I've never read it. That's some really scary stuff."

Ray: "I do: I go into the bathroom, lock the door and read some fanfic."

Gerard: "Actually, the whole thing with me and Frank doing stuff onstage together was really just to irritate people, but people started getting into it, so we stopped."

Frank: "You'd see these quintessential jock dudes beating each other up to our music and you'd think, 'Wouldn't it be funny if they turned around and saw that they were beating each other up to us two kissing?'."

Gerard: "And it was funny for a brief period. If you boil down the DNA of My Chemical Romance, the base would be this: what do you want us to do - because we're going to do the opposite. I think I'm still trying to make my parents mad."

• If you had to lose one of your senses, which one would you choose?

From: Christina Cardwell, Northern Ireland

Gerard: "Smell - no question. Get it outta here, that's an easy one. Who needs smell?"

• Did you really record a song in your underwear? If so, which one? I bet Vampire Money.

From: Lois Burgess, Via Kerrang.com

Gerard: "I wore short shorts for some of the recordings. To be honest, they were really short shorts. They were basically underwear, I suppose. But we were having a heat wave in LA: that's my justification! I did record You Know What They Do To Guys Like Us In Prison on Three Cheers For Sweet Revenge in my

underwear, but I don't think anybody would have wanted to have seen that."

• If you were in a post-apocalyptic world where food was gone, who would you eat first? You can include the Kerrang! journalist.

From: Ciaran Treanor, Dublin

Gerard: "Sorry, Tom. I like you and all, but it's going to be you."

Frank: "Yup, it's you, Tom. I mean, Gerard and Mikey are brothers, so that's not going to happen. It would be a bit awkward if Ray or I were to go so, sorry , we're going to eat you, Tom."

• On which My Chem song were you absolutely at the top of your game, recording and playing-wise?

From: Ed, Southhampton

Ray: "I think Vampire Money is one. We recorded that entire song live, except for a couple of vocal overdubs. We wrote it that morning, played it, then put it on the record."

Frank: "Desert Song was another - it was really off the cuff. We were in the studio late one night and it was just us and an engineer. That kind of stuff is really fun. It always feels really good when all of us just go in and play, rather than tracking things individually."

• Ray, how much of your Puerto Rican heritage has stayed with you? I can make a mean Coquito if you're ever in Dover.

From: Oswald Martinez, Dover

Ray: "Nice! Actually, I'm starting to learn how to cook some of my mom's recipes. I'm perfecting her rice and gandules, which is a staple Puerto Rican dish of rice, pigeon peas and ham. There's Pollo Guisado too, which is chicken stew, and is my favourite thing that my mom makes. I've been telling the other  guys that I'm going to serve it to them on tour. Maybe I should bring a travelling kitchen with me."

Frank: "That would be fucking awsome: we could have a cooking competition. In fact, instead of a support act, let's open our shows with a cookery contest."

• Frank, you recently got 'BOOKW0RM' tattooed on your fingers, what are your favourite books to read and who's your favourite author?

From: Emma, Galway, Ireland

Gerard: "Really? (Peers at Frank's hands) God, it's imposible to keep track, (Frank links his fingers togueter to show his tatto) Oh, wow, look at those - they look like some kind of arcane symbol until you put them all together like that."

Frank: "My twins really love looking at them. The Book Thief by Markus Zusak is an incredible book that I'm reading at the moment. I think Catcher In The Rye is my favourite book, though I love almost anything by J.D. Salinger. Books are like movies though, I have so many favourites, it varies according to my mood."

Gerard: "He's always reading - on planes, on the bus, in his bunk, wherever. I really envy it: he can just tune noise out and read in the middle of the chaos of an airport. I just can't do that."

Frank: "We all used to laugh at Gerard because he had these headphones that blocked out all sound. He called them his 'Shut the fuck ups'."

• Ray, do you ever get people who just want to touch your (epic) hair?

From: Cat, Portsmouth

Ray: "Yes. And it's weird."

Gerard: "They approach, hang out, going, 'Can I just...' and, before they even get to the end of the question, they're already doing it.'"

Ray: "I don't get it at all. I'm not sure I can see the excitement in touching my hair."

Gerard: "Your hair is part of your mojo, man."

• Gerard's getting on a bit now, does he keep dying his outlandish colours because he's actually gone grey?

From: J, London

Gerard: "I wish I'd gone grey - if I had, then I wouldn't have to keep dying it. Holy shit, a full head of silver hair would be cool. I want to be a silver fox."

Mikey: "Our grandfather had his hair colour until he was about 70 years old, so I don't think we'll ever go grey."

• If you were all in a horror movie, which one of you is most likely to survive until the end and why?

From: Ella, Surrey

Mikey: "I'd be dead first. I've run through this scenario in my head before and I know I'd get it immediately. I wouldn't even have the chance to protect someone by giving up my life for them: I'd be gone too fast for that."

Ray: "Frank would survive the longest. He's scrappy."

Gerard: "You say that, but I think he'd do something like Vasquez in Aliens and let all monsters eat him so that he could pull a grenade on them and laugh. I think Mikey would live longest - he's the guy that everyone would want to see survive."

WTF?

• Can Gerard lick his nose?

From: Holly, Newcastle

Gerard: "Let's find out. (Tries to lick his nose) Nope."

• Frank, do you enjoy coming up with extremely strange and unusual names when fans ask you to name things? I'm getting a bird next month would you name it? Thanks, dude.

From: Brianna, New Hampshire.

Frank: "Sure: Corn-nuts."

• Which one of you most resembles Barbra Streisand?

From: Jess Roche, Wexford, Ireland

(Long pause as the band look at each other nonplussed)
Gerard: "Shall we leave it there?"

Listen Sing - Glee Cover

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Fuente: MCR French Team